JASON KIMBLE escaped the arctic climes of Michigan winters for welcoming, sultry Florida. That is, if by “welcoming” you mean “full of retirees who ooze a sense of entitlement,” and by “sultry” you mean
“grotesquely humid and prone to hurricanes.” But it’s definitely Florida. Plus: no snow to shovel.
TARRAN JONES spent over 10 years in the book industry selling other people’s books at a bookshop and thought it was about time she started thinking about her own. She has finished her first novel Stones of Power and is now writing the second. Tarran has previously written articles, reviews, and blog posts for her bookstore’s blog and has also written a great many short stories and an unpublished novella. Her story All That Glitters is featured in Twice Upon A Time.
Tales From The Scribe is a collection of speculative fiction stories, all written with a common mystical theme.
She loves writing all kinds of spec fiction and thinks that it fires up the imagination. Gardening is one of Tarran’s passions and, when she isn’t writing, she can be found talking to the plants out in her vegetable garden in Adelaide, Australia, where she lives with her partner and young daughter.
BRIAN T. HODGES lives amongst the moss, trees, and concrete of the Pacific Northwest. In addition to writing fiction, Brian is also a musician, having released several albums of esoteric and ethereal music under the moniker, The Blue Hour.
He can often be found wandering stream beds or trails, turning over stones to find new stories. His fiction has been published by New Lit Salon Press, The Bearded Scribe Press, Liquid Imagination, The Strange Edge, received an Honorable Mention from the Writers of the Future contest (V31 Q1 2014), and was a finalist in the 2013 N3F Amateur Short Story Contest. He has a story coming out later this year with Metaphysical Circus.
TONIA MARIE HARRIS resides in Southcentral Illinois. She lives and writes happily (albeit frantically) among chaos, poetry, and books. Her muse is a cross-dressing goblin with a penchant for rum and Kafka novels.
Her latest work-in-progress is the contemporary fiction novel about a young woman drawn into the family drug business to keep her younger siblings out of foster care.
Also in the works is collection of witchy poetry centered around surviving toxic relationships (including the ones we have with ourselves and various substances).
Her work has appeared in Twice Upon A Time, a collection of reimagined fairy tales, Hand/Eye Magazine, Mash Stories, Silver Birch Press, and various anthologies.
Chocolate is her kryptonite.
KELLY HALE is the author of several short stories, a novella, two plays, a co-authored TV tie-in novel of the Doctor Who variety, and her own book, Erasing Sherlock now available on Amazon Kindle. She lives in a crazy little place called Stumptown–jewel of the Pacific Northwest–where the streets are paved with espresso beans and the garbage recycles itself. She used to fantasize about sexy Vampires, Timelords, and Vulcans; now she fantasizes about making them a nice bowl of soup.
K.R. GREEN writes fantasy novels about the modern-day equivalents of prehistoric creatures. If it existed in the Jurassic period, then she’s likely got an ancestor in her novels: lizards, birds and winged insects alike.
She has flown hawks and held a dragon, but has yet to grow her own wings. Aside from the practical research, her writing process involves a lot of herbal teas, list-making, singing, video games, and reading.
She spends a lot of time over at the NaNoWriMo forums, tries to read a book a month, and writes a mixture of novels, articles, and journal posts. She generally attends a writing convention each year, and updates her blog once a week. Her article on writing first drafts was featured in #64 of Focus, the BSFA magazine in July, and details of her published fiction can be found on her blog store.
She also empowers people to unfold their own stories—facilitating mental health workshops, running a self-help business, and editing works-in-progress for novelists.
When she’s not painting pictures with words or working; she star-gazes, meditates, dances, handles hawks, and takes photographs. She lives with her two house-rabbits in the overcast lands of Hampshire, England.
JAX GOSS is something of a jack of all trades. She has, in her many lifetimes, been a teacher, an IT professional, a customer service guru, a trainer, an editor, a writer, a typesetter, a mother, a fire-dancer, a theatre nerd, a coffee connoisseur, and a social media whizzkid.
These days she is focussed on the mother/editor/social media/writer parts of that modgepodge of skills. She has a habit of trying to keep too many balls in the air at once, which probably comes from being just a little bit interested in everything, but this means that she has, despite herself, become a master juggler.
She drinks too much coffee, reads a lot of books, hates the word ‘utilise’ with the fire of a thousand suns, loves baby elephants, misses the African sun, and is endlessly interested in people and their stories.
DALE W. GLASER is a lifelong collector and re-teller—and occasional inventor—of fantasy tales.
He grew up right on the line between suburban cul-de-sacs and unspoiled wilderness, and has been known to get up to mischief in the woods late at night from time to time.
He once played Santa Claus in a third-grade play, but felt the narrative lacked a certain something in the way of external conflict with giant monsters. He was relegated to non-speaking background elf roles thereafter. Since then he has realized that if he wants a good earth-shattering epic told right, he’d best tell it himself.
He is a small town boy made good, the small town in question being one built entirely out of Tinker Toys and Lincoln Logs and populated by off-brand sword and sorcery action figures, alien finger puppets, and wind-up robots.
He read Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland for the first time in fifth grade, and got good and spoiled by it. The sheer lack of nonsense in the required reading across the remainder of his education was disappointing by comparison. He makes up for it these days by penning his own weird trips to other worlds.
HE attended the College of William & Mary in Virginia, where he majored in English and worked on the campus humor and satire magazine, The Pillory. He completed a senior thesis on urban legends. He found out very late in the process that the thesis board had approved his project proposal under the mistaken impression that it was to be a traditional research paper on modern American folklore, rather than the epic narrative of interwoven recountings he had envisioned, but it was too late by then to do anything but thank the spirits of all literary tricksters for helping him pull a fast one. He showed up to his thesis defense in a collared shirt and jeans shorts with a patch declaring “MEAN PEOPLE SUCK” in hot pink block letters. Somehow, he was allowed to graduate regardless.
He needs air, food, water, and stories in order to survive, not necessarily in that order. His lifelong love of written words has manifested as a devotion to the English language almost exclusively, which is probably just as well because if he were to master any of the dead tongues that conceal ancient mysteries and invoke malevolent forces, we’d all be in trouble.
He currently lives in Virginia with his wife, their three children, and a rotating roster of pets. Six is a good estimate of how many animals cohabit with the family at any given time.
STEVEN ANTHONY GEORGE is an emerging West Virginia poet and short fiction writer who has previously lived in Dunkirk, NY and Marathon, FL. He finds inspiration in historical events, visual art, and film. He graduated summa cum laude from Fairmont State University with a BA in Honors English in 2006. While a student, he worked as a poetry editor for Kestrel and earned a one-on-one adjudication of his work by poet Maggie Anderson.
His work has appeared in several online and print publications, including Buried Letter Press, Cleaver Magazine, and Eclectic Flash which chose his short story “Richard III is Dead? Really?” for its annual “Best Of” issue in 2010. His short plays “Neurotic Medieval Custom” and “The Burning of Mary” were presented as part the New Mystics Arts Center’s Emerging Playwrights showcase Series in October 2011.
His short story “Genevieve from the River” is published in the anthology Diner Stories: Off the Menu, edited by Daniel McTaggart and published by Mountain State Press. His short story “Patient Griselda” is published in the anthology Twice Upon A Time: Fairytale, Folklore, & Myth, Reimagined & Remastered, edited by Joshua Allen Mercier and published by The Bearded Scribe Press.
His debut novel, Ghost of A Dog was released in October 2022.
Steven Anthony George is a resident of Fairmont, WV. He has worked as a mentor for autistic students at Fairmont State University, and currently works as an autism consultant for Autism Community Consultants.
